I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVISTo look back is to relax one’s vigil.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I work to stay alive.
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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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